It’s a scary time out there, Readers, and I hope that you are all alright and taking good care of yourselves and your family. As someone with a mother in her 70s with compromised lungs who lives with people in the service industry, it’s kind of terrifying. Everyday I worry that my brother or his
The thing about being a woman of a certain age is that, while much of life is certainly so much better than it was in your 20s (more money & stability, no need to please everyone around you, etc), there comes with age this one particularly unpleasant symptom. And for someone who has always run
Yesterday was not a good day. I was feeling all over aches, bloating, nausea, stiffness in my back….just yuck. As the day went on, I developed a headache and then, shortly after I had a little dinner, I threw up everything my tiny stomach could possibly hold. I went to bed knowing that I would wake
I had writing plans for this weekend, but I seem to have caught the cold that’s been going around, so I am going to call it a sick day and not beat myself up over it. I think it might be a good day for my couch, my blankets and pillows and whatever movies I
Ever have a cold hit you so hard, so fast that you went from “everything’s fine” to “somebody shoot me” in a single afternoon? That’s what happened to me last week. I went to work on Wednesday feeling pretty okay, if a little tired (but tired is a part of the wicked insomnia I’ve been
